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The MOMocrats™ site is dedicated to putting a Democrat in the White House in January 2009, and effectuating real change in our nation. We are a group of 22 progressive mother bloggers who have come together to support the candidate we think will m
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Not Under the Bus: Groups expresses info and concerns about women and health care reform via video
About this video and group: NotUnderTheBus.com is a comprehensive landing place for anyone looking to know the latest news in the health care debate. The coming weeks are going to be crucial for activists to make sure their concerns are heard a...
The gentlemom from New York: Sen Gillibrand not actually Sen Schumer\'s Mommy Figure
The Washington Post recently ran an excellent article about "the gentlemom" from New York, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY). I'm all for highlighting how moms Can Do, Will Do, and Have Done in order to better promote cultural understanding that wome...
Civil and Human Rights Given, Then Taken Away in the Legislature: Marriage Equality Loses in NY Senate
Maine's depressing vote in November, which took away marriage equality rights previously granted. A victory in May, but this past week, NY's equally depressing vote overturning marriage equality in the NY State Senate. It's getting to the point where...
Mikulski, Snowe, Collins, Vitter bring victory for women\'s health in Senate bill; ensure preventive care
Straight from Kaiser Health News today (bolding mine, to highlight crucial points):"Senate Bill Moves Forward, Amendment Ensures Coverage For Women's Preventive Care"...
The Season of Giving
A terrific blogger, Alias Mother, is doing a blog-link-y thing where she's writing about her favorite charities and encouraging readers to do the same.To that end, a couple of MOMocrats will be posting about our favorites charities - ones that help w...
Et tu, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists?
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) has issued new guidelines for pap smears, which screen for cervical cancer. Previously, they suggested beginning testing after becoming sexually active and testing annually starting in yo...
Go Read It: US Catholic Conference of Bishops\' Hypocrisy on Federal Tax Dollars & the Stupak-Pitts Amendment
Not all Catholics believe the exact same thing. There are Catholics for Choice, Catholics who use contraception, and then...there's the US Conference on Catholic Bishops, which was an active, energetic force lobbying politicians to pass Stu-Pitts pri...
BRUNNER SAYS U.S. HOUSE ACTION MOVES WOMEN\'S RIGHTS BACKWARD
MOMocrats are happy to welcome back guest poster Ohio Secretary of State and Senate Candidate Jennifer Brunner as she comments about the Stu-Pitts action in the House and the untenable effect it has on women's right to access legal health care. She s...
It\'s a Mad World in the US House of Representatives when it comes to Health Care Reform
The US House of Representatives just asked women to take a sucker punch in the ovaries, "Sacrifice your fair access to LEGAL health care for the GREATER GOOD."I think women have been sacrificing too much for too long for the greater good. Elected off...
The Stu-Pitts of Congress, and Women\'s Health Care From the Waist Up
Forgive me if I sound a little bitter despite being deeply moved by the passage of the Affordable Health Care Act this past weekend in the House. It IS a huge achievement and one-third of what we need to get the bill to President Obama to sign. I'm p...
I Hate to Break it to the GOP, but We ARE in Our Place!
Oh those crazy people at the Republican National Congressional Committee!! When there's something they're not happy about, they can't help themselves from saying something silly! The RNCC tried to chide Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi with thi...
Just Being Alive Will Soon be a Pre-existing Condition
Domestic violence isn't a subject I talk about much, but it's something I feel very strongly about because I have a very personal connection to the topic. I was a victim of domestic abuse. Many, many years ago I was married for a very short time when...
Domestic Violence: Women Under Attack from All Angles Receive Support from President, Violence UnSilenced
This month is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. At a time when domestic violence facts are shocking -- 1 in 4 women will experience domestic violence in her lifetime, among other distressing statistics put out by the Domestic Violence Resou...
Hear My Story, Hear Our Stories: First Lady Michelle Obama on How Health Insurance Reform Can Help Women
[Official White House transcript of First Lady Michelle Obama's speech to women's advocacy groups at the White House today. You can view video of the entire event here. I have added at the end links to studies or issues mentioned......
Hear My Story: Breast Cancer Twice, and My Only Choice Was Health Care in France
HOW BLUE CROSS/BLUE SHIELD OF NEW YORK TRIED TO KILL ME by Suzanne White America is no place to be old or sick. I am an American health insurance exile. While living in New York in 1978, I got breast......
Why We Must Stand Up For the Right to Breastfeed -- By Senator Jeff Merkley
Right now in America, working mothers are being discriminated against solely because they breastfeed their children. Last week the Ohio Supreme Court threw logic out the window when it ruled that a woman was rightfully fired for taking breaks at......
Go Read It: Health Insurance Reform is a Women's Issue
The Nation has a great post on why reforming the health insurance industry is a women's issue. It starts with the simple fact that women whose primary work is caretaking (of children or others) are ineligible for employer-based insurance, and......
Happy Women's Equality Day!
Did you know that today, August 26 is Women's Equality Day in the US? This day commemorates the passage of the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution, giving women the right to vote. Women's suffrage was first proposed in 1848,......
Netroots Nation: Day Two Highlights
Howard Dean on Health Care The second day of Netroots Nation opened with a discussion of health care with Howard Dean. Dean was interviewed by Tanya Tarr and Mike Lux in a town hall format. Many audience members wore hardhats......
Sonia Sotomayor & Sexism: The More Things Stay the Same
Thought we were done with how men in the media find as many disparaging ways to talk about women as possible? No, I didn't either. Just as the MSM found lots of subtle and not-so-subtle ways to express their feelings......
Conservative Shadowboxing on Sonia Sotomayor
This week's Senate confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor closed Thursday, not so much with a bang, but a whimper, with the confirmation committee's ranking Republican member Senator Jeff Sessions going so far as to say to th...
Pat Buchanan: You Are a Hateful Disgrace
In an interview with Rachel Maddow tonight, Pat Buchanan makes an ass of himself stating that Sonia Sotomayor, a sitting judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit is not qualified to sit on the United States......
A Women of Color Trifecta This Week? Sotomayor, Chu, and Benjamin
In judge's robes: 2d Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Sonia Sotomayor, nominee for Supreme Court Justice; center: Congresswoman Judy Chu; in a doctor's coat: Dr. Regina Benjamin, nominee for U.S. Surgeon General During the recent hearings to confirm Ob...
A '10 Senate Race to Watch: Democrats Gillibrand and Maloney Vie in NY
Left, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-NY Right, Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, D-NY For liberal New Yorkers mulling the fall 2010 special election race to fill the U.S. Senate seat currently occupied by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), the declaration o...
What's The Role for Religion in Reducing the Need for/Number of Abortions?
I ask, because I'm genuinely unsure. And increasingly uneasy about the permanence of religious approaches to policy in the Obama administration. From the Extremes to the Middle As more information becomes public on Scott Roeder, the man suspected of ...
U.S. One Step Closer to Joining Civilized World on Paid Parental Leave
Only five countries in the world offer no form of legally protected paid maternity leave to women workers: Papua New Guinea, Swaziland, Lesotho, Liberia, and the United States. Despite the fact that successful paid parental leave programs in 168 othe...
Did Roeder Act Alone in Tiller Murder?
Scott Roeder, the man accused of shooting women's health care advocate and abortion provider Dr. George Tiller last week, called the Associated Press on Sunday June 7th and warned that he knew of other plans for violence against abortion providers,.....
Go Read It: Important political news and action you might have missed...and shouldn't
Anti-Choice in HHS? Remember HHS and the Conscience Rule? President Obama put in place a new "Conscience" leader at the HHS. Read more about it here: ABORTION FOE TO LEAD HHS FAITH-BASED OFFICE: President Obama has appointed Alexia Kelley, executive....
Political women worldwide face sexism
As different as our cultures are in so many ways and to so many different degrees, this weekend women in Iran and the United States both experienced something similar: sexism in politics. In Iran, "Iranian presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Moussavi ...
A Tribute: Dr. George Tiller in His Own Words
It is my fundamental philosophy that patients are emotionally, mentally, morally, spiritually and physically competent to struggle with complex health issues and come to decisions that are appropriate for them. --Dr. George Tiller (read the full tran...
